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Featured Economics · 15 min read · May 16

The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash

Land rises 14 years, falls 4 — and has for 200 years. The cause is rising land prices becoming unsustainable for productive economic activity. The remedy has been known since 1879.

By Floyd Marinescu

The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash

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100 articles on the history and future of progress.

The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash

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Humanity II

US GDP First Quarter 2009

The Slowdown Slows Down

Living means killing

The Conceit of Climate Control

Can competing groups find a way to share land?

The Government's War on Teenagers

A Song About the Mortgage Crisis

How to Invest Wisely

Let's Put the Unemployed to Work!

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